Cloudscape Comics: A Case Study

In New York City, it is very fast paced with individuals trying to get from one destination to another. The shops we enter are no longer about only buying products, but customers want an experience. The experience is having more services offered to customers, they don't just want to buy pants anymore, they want food offered in the store. One of the many shops doing this is Barnes & Noble, a bookstore company that is changing our experience in bringing a community together. Barnes & Noble has created this "community bookstore" by adding a Starbucks and hosting special events for customers. Barnes & Noble has become a social setting for consumers, where our experiences in bookstores have changed.

Since the café is located near the Courthouse district and located on a busy corner lot with only one another Café two blocks away, it has a tremendous competitive advantage.

for style and functionality product. Over 150 independent retail stores has been owned with the

One of the big reasons Ms. Kudler is so interested in adding gourmet coffee in her stores is because of the massive boom in coffee over the past twenty years. Coffee has gone from a cheap product sold in Styrofoam for twenty five cents to a coffee and espresso mixed in different combinations with sugar and cream sold in fancy cups for over three dollars a cup. So as Ms. Kudler joins the ever growing market she is clear that she is competing with other giants in the coffee industry. Primarily she will be dealing with Starbucks, Starbucks is the coffee industry, and currently they are in many grocery stores and strip malls everywhere. Starbucks is so popular people refer to getting a starbucks rather than getting a coffee. Ms. Kudler is aware Starbucks and there

Because of their substantial growth over two decades, they have spent a considerable amount of time defending their image. Their “clustering” strategy put many small coffee shops out of business and many consumers began to wonder if there really was a need

more convenient business for our customers. This helps us in both the short and the long

Today, images surround us, and they can have a bigger interaction between their viewers than may be assumed. In Scott McCloud’s book, “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art”, he relays the concept of simplification, and how to use it to bring more emphasis to the meaning of the drawing. In other words, McCloud is saying that through a process of breaking down a drawing to its rawest and most simplistic form, the piece itself becomes deeper in meaning. When looking at a finished image it should be apparent that the artist put thought into every detail, line, shape. When a final image looks simplistic, this is where the artist has succeeded in tricking the eye into believing the image is effortless when in fact it can in some cases be the exact

Orchid”. From this experience,he caught DC Comic’s eye, who then hired Gaiman to put a

“We want our place to remain approachable and attainable to all people, from extreme coffee enthusiasts to farmers,” Moore said. She loves how all different kinds of people can come into one place and enjoy the experience.

One of the main points of the article was to highlight the uniqueness of this fairly new business. It appeals to coffee and comic books lovers, so it has a unique customer base. I agree with this because it seems like a fun business, and I have never heard of any other business like this that combines coffee and comic

This in reality makes for coffee shops today be a better public sphere than the England 17th century model because it allows for even more people to be accepted and enjoy the cultures of coffeehouses.

I sat in the airport boarding area hyperventilating. My father looked over at me from his seat, more annoyed than concerned. He knew that I didn't want to travel, yet he made it clear that I, being 14 years old, had no choice in the matter. We were going to visit my grandparents in Puerto Rico. They hadn't seen me in years and had been asking for a visit for some time. I was told it would be a time to reconnect with my dad's side of the family, enjoy the country air and the beaches. Oh, and there was this one other thing. I wasn't supposed to let anyone know that my mother had died a year and a half ago. You see, my father hadn't found the right way to tell them that their ex-daughter in law had succumbed to cancer after a two year battle

While coffee is a simple product, the “Starbucks Experience” that is mentioned several times throughout the case is exactly what creates value for their customers and makes their company successful. Their strategy includes creating a home away from home included as a part of their day-to-day routine that reflects the personalities of their consumers and community. Consumers are willing to pay more for Starbucks because they have a greater perceived value through experience.

The ambiances at each bar were different and the energy was electrifying. It was in this setting that he realized that creating an atmosphere and bonding with customers around a cup of coffee was monumental in improving his business. Coffee would be only the automobile for a place where people want to stay for a while, a place-like-home, and office. These variables will become the differentiating factor for Starbucks.

They generally chose exceedingly obvious areas and opened stores as groups. As interest developed, these store bunches made them ready to deal with the expanded movement and to keep their focused position. In the same way, they took think about the administrations gave in the stores. Howard Schultz expected to open the sentiment and secret of coffee in coffee bars, and he knew how vital the part of baristas in attaining